Green Elementary

Set in Raleigh, North Carolina, Green Elementary is a reasonably sized elementary campus, operated by Wake County Schools. It instructs 534 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Wake County Schools runs 198 schools in total, collectively educating 163,176 students. Green Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Green Elementary logs that the most-represented group is Black (36%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder is composed of 30% Hispanic, 28% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Wake County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Green Elementary has 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Green Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Wake County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Green Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 48.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 53.1%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Wake County shows median household income runs about $105,768, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Wake County runs 237 public schools (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students), of which Green Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Sanderson High, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Green Elementary. On composite proficiency, Green Elementary comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 54.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 19%: 656 students in 2018 compared to 534 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 21% to 30%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 in 2025.

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